FLORENCE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY Issue 6 / May 2022
Curatorial statement Since its foundation, Florence Contemporary Gallery has been an artistic dissemination platform that presents a selection of carefully selected contemporary artists, through our initiatives we have built, and continue to increase our community of artists, curators, collectors and art lovers. First of all I would like to thank all the artists, selected and not, for their commitment and dedication in creating extraordinary works of art, your thoughts and vision enrich our contemporary society. As with any art form, especially visual art, there are many ways an artist can bring a work to life, in this edition we explore some of these different art forms and hope you admire the various techniques used, also through the pages of this catalog, art in its conglomerate of forms has the power to stop us in our tracks, flood our minds with different emotions and does not push us to achieve the impossible, therefore, savor it with us , absorb the emotion portrayed in the selected works. For this edition, the theme to be developed revolved around the word “Reminiscence” understood in its broadest spectrum. The basic idea to be developed was to take as a starting point a subject, an artistic technique, a connection or an inspiration from a work of the past, and then develop a work that is not a reinterpretation but a new work of art that dialogues with contemporary times. A theme that left a lot of room for action and choice, and the result was a selection of exceptional works that you can find on our website. In the pages of this catalog you will find the artists and works selected during the call with the addition of three more works for each of them. Welcome to Reminiscence.
Michele Morelli FCG chief curator
Index
Bela Balog
6
Claudia Habringer
10
Dawn M Gaietto
14
Vanessa Wenwieser
18
Christian Door
22
Taghera
26
Deoffal Maldoror
30
KIYORA
34
O Yemi Tubi
38
Laura Dimitrova
42
Eri Kato
46
Lize Krüger
50
Luana Stebule
54
Luciano Caggianello
58
Nato
62
Artusnow
66
Olga Me
70
Pato Reichler
74
Paul Richards
78
Kamila CK
82
Vasile Stefanoiu
86
Wendy Cohen
90
Yvonne Welman
94
Bela Balog Bela Balog lives and works in Budapest, Hungary. He consider himself primarily as a digital artist of deconstructivism and futurism. He mix a lot of architectural elements into his digital works. These create a sense of chaotic structure, increasing the dynamism of the work. What also draws the audience to decipher these images are the recognizable figures are silhouettes. In the future, he wants to follow this imagined path and create more new series in the same style. Bela Balog’s artworks have been shown in galleries and art magazines in many countries (USA, UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Italy). All his artworks are a process of a story, a plot. Stories that surround his narrower or wider environment. Sometimes it’s a simple newspaper article or a photo inspired, but there are times when it’s a literary work, a movie, or the streets around his residence, the riverside, or the people. Website: belabalog.com Instagram: bemycreativestudio Email: artist@belabalog.com
In Harmony Digital Art 61 x 91 cm 2022
6 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Face Digital Art 61 x 91 cm 2022
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 7
Road in the Mountains Digital Art 61 x 91 cm 2022
8 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Urban Hustle and Bustle Digital Art 61 x 91 cm 2022
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 9
Claudia Habringer
born 1963 in Eibiswald, Styria/Austria, theater studies and journalism in Vienna; training as a musical actress with stage maturity in Tanzforum Wien and Musical Theatre Studio, Theater an der Wien; Training as a specialist and behavioral trainer at the Management Academy / University of Salzburg and at the BFI Innsbruck; further training in the field of human energetics, systemic energetics, Innerwise; my professional life contains variety: Choreographies for stage shows; Workshops with children, young people and adults in the areas of dance, stage, self-presentation, body language; use of theater pedagogy in the classroom; Seminars in the field of team, creativity and motivation; Language training “German as a foreign language”; Workshops in the field of expressive dance and healing dance; Individual work as a voice coach, innerwise coach, learning coach; Copying others has always been alien to me. I develop my own methods. It means to swim against main stream but it is worth it. Statement: I act as an instrument of my perception. Lines and colors are my language on the canvas. My drive is curiosity. There are no limits to the universal possibilities. I have been interested in energy fields for quite a long time now. Perception of the aura has become a part of my life. Out of curiosity I started to draw and paint what I sensed. Lines and Colors have become tools to represent space and emotion. It is always a journey starting at a dot. My focus lays upon staying in connection with the targeted field as long as the creative process lasts. I try to keep my work honest and close to what I perceive. Heaven knows why I chose markers to express myself. Colors have always played a big role in my life. I’m a self-taught visual artist and always on a journey to explore what’s possible by trusting my instincts. Site: claudia-habringer.com Instagram: @claudia_habringer Facebook: @claudia.habringer Email: caudia.habringer@icloud.com
In resonance with the SUN Marker on canvas 100 x 70 cm 2018
10 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
In resonance with EGON SCHIELE Marker on fabric 60 x 90 cm 2015
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 11
In resonance with the music of LUDOVICO EINAUDI Marker on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2021
12 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
In resonance with the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM in NY Mixed media-marker and acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm 2020
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 13
Dawn M Gaietto
Dawn m gaietto is a lens-based practitioner working and living in London. Her doctoral research, entitled What is happening here? [exploits of the nonhuman] was completed at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her research is centred on examining small components of nonhuman agency, allowing for momentary lapses in preconceived notions, and exploring the impacts of nonhumans acting upon and influencing humans. Recently she has been in residence at LABVERDE in Manaus, Brazil; and recent publications include Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies, Espacio Fronterizo, and Time to Waste. Recent exhibitions include the installation of a functional pigeon loft within a gallery space. This intervention allowed for a potential reconfiguring of viewership — creating new formulations of sustainability — both in the art making practices and a wider practice of being-in-the-world. Statement: The images in Unfixed Consciousness/Postive Unconciousness are manifestations of the collective agency between the mechanical, technological, and atmospheric elements as well as my own as composer and interpreter. This was done by building an imaging device that triggers the shutter through changes in the temperature and humidity as detected by an SHT11x sensor that queried the environment once a minute. This device was deployed in several archetypical ecosystems throughout Alachua County for an eighteen-hour period, one day in each location. The measurements of temperature and humidity were selected as parameters for this project due to their relevance to shifting climate in North-Central Florida. As wetlands have been drained for development and agricultural uses, humidity is destabilised and lowers. This lowering of humidity allows for a greater fluctuation in temperature, therefore a shifting frost line, which then pushes agriculture, such as citrus farms, farther south. The locations selected for the images are all key archetypal ecosystems that contribute to modifying their local climates, which through the feedback loop the climate continues to modify the land. Here each serial image is constructed of a grid specific to the temperature and humidity variability of the day the images were captured. Each grid places temperature in degrees Celsius on the yaxis and humidity in percent on the x-axis. This work draws from the historical lineage of landscape photography, particularly in the relationship of image-making and ownership inherent from the onset of landscape imagery, specifically in regard to European merchants in the late fifteenth century following the introduction of mathematical perspective and oil paints. This use of perspective introduced an ego-centrality to viewing that enhanced the transformation of space into place through picture- making. Borrowing from Liz Wells, I am identifying space as an indeterminate expanse of the unknown and place being that which is named, imaged, and thereby owned. By creating a vertical topology of atmospheric forces, the serialized images abstract place, although the landscape is not returned to the position of space, through the activated collective agencies notions of ownership are resisted transforming into a non-place. This work explores the problem of anthropocentric positions in viewing environmental issues by vacillating between degrees of constructing situations and harnessing existing phenomena to create work in a way that does not provide preference to humans specifically in the context of environmental concerns. Website: dmgaietto.com Email: dawn@dmgaietto.com
Fresh Water Marsh in July Digital photography with electronic intervention via Arduino micro-controller and SHT11x sensor 112 x 239 cm
14 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Open Water Preservation Area in August Digital photography with electronic intervention via Arduino micro-controller and SHT11x sensor 112 x 264 cm
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Pasture in August Digital photography with electronic intervention via Arduino microcontroller and SHT11x sensor 112 x 229 cm
16 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Pine Flat Wood Forest in July Digital photography with electronic intervention via Arduino micro-controller and SHT11x sensor 112 x 41 cm
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 17
Vanessa Wenwieser
Vanessa Wenwieser’s work places the female into the centre of her imagination, she liberates them from the typical male gaze and brings her female perspective to the forefront. This gives them a very contemporary feel, in addition to her art being created digitally! In her artworks, women are seen as beings with minds, emotions and intuitively powerful. Using the figure and allusive storytelling elements Wenwieser examines the gap between appearance and being. Feelings are exhibited naked and vulnerable, she explores them in an imaginative and beautiful way, trying to make people see the transcendent. Her aim is to pull the viewer inside her pictures to make them inhabit her otherworldly depictions. These artworks, show what particular transformative emotions and feelings could look like. Be it love, metamorphosis, imagination, healing, regaining lost strength and the afterlife. Wenwieser uses space to create feeling of the sublime, when describing strong emotional places of the soul. “I want to be inside your darkest everything” (Frida Kahlo) Statement: The theme I chose, originates from Judaic and Mesopotamian mythologies; pre-Christian. The figure Lilith who, in my piece called “The allure of darkness’, was the first wife of Adam in mythology. I savoured her story very much and thought although it happened so long ago here character and strength can easily be linked to modern times and feminism. She was banished from the Garden of Eden for not complying with and obeying Adam. I find her inspiring; hot and fiery; she fought for equality and striving for fairness; she is not frightened to being alone in the wilderness or of holding a snake; she would rather be alone and banished that to receive orders from Adam. She said because she was made from earth, as was Adam, that they are equal and she did not accept that he said he is superior. This is a great analogy to represent feminism and striving for equality, even in present day, which is still ongoing, which the latest case in America shows that they are discussing the right to abortion although it has been the law for over 50 years. My wish is to represent women from former times that are still inspirational nowadays and the idea is timeless. My Lilith holds her head up high and looks defiant and is alluring and dangerous with her fiery red hair. I think women like this inspire women nowadays to continue the fight. I want to liberate the female from the male gaze and bring my female perspective to the forefront. I want to show them with minds, emotions of their own and intuitively powerful. The idea is ongoing, the connection is from ancient days, but the method of making the artwork is completely modern, after all how much more modern can you get than digital art? Email: nessie90@hotmail.com Instagram: kunstfabrikstudio
The allure of darkness Digital art printed on archival Fine Art Giclee paper 67 x 60 cm 2021 18 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
When the promised flower blooms Digital art printed on archival Fine Art Giclée paper 67 x 60 cm
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Time waits for no on Digital art printed on archival Fine Art Giclée paper 67 x 60 cm
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The wolf waits Digital art - printed on archival Fine Art Giclée paper 67 x 60 cm
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Christian Door Statement Being a digital native, I wanted to investigate some aspects that the digital world commonly offers to the user, such as the modification, customization and combination of pre-established structures, elements, objects within a specific environment or software. In fact at the base of the project there is the desire to create artworks always starting from the same basic elements which in this case are geometric compositions, shifting the attention from time to time to the creative process, albeit limited by the basic compositions becomes a creative practice that generates different artworks but always referable as if it were a series, the the result that follows are works characterized by fields of geometric color that create abstract figures each time where the title represent a personal view to visualize the subject. Instagram: christian__door Email: christian_door@yahoo.com
Tracy: fast car Acrylic on canvas 21 x 30 cm 2020
22 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Untitled Acrylic on canvas 50x70cm 2022
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UNTITLED Acrylic on paper 70 x 100 cm 2021
24 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Fucku Acrylic on print 60x42 cm 2021
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 25
Taghera
Taghera was born on October 26, 1996 in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia), the second child in her family. She was 3 years old when my mother left the family, and 5 when my father died. Since then, her life has been very difficult. She also had to deal with poverty, cruelty and violence, so she didn’t have time to be a child. From a young age, drawing was an outpouring of her soul, which brought some relief. However, due to life circumstances she took a break from painting, and she could never pursue art formally. At the age of 21, she followed her dream and moved to Italy to paint more deeply in her own style, which is called “abstraction”. Why did she choose this style of drawing? - The best way to explain is that she really did not see any starting point for herself since childhood. She often conveys her emotions when she paints, including the deep desires and pain she has experienced in her life. In her paintings, she wants to reflect life, movement, relationships and feelings, some human prophets and life’s problems. The artist tries to do all this by looking for emotions and inspiration in all possible places and communicating with different generations of people. She paints most of her paintings in oils and in many different colors, this is her style and she is different from others. She always feels that the soul of a great artist lives in her, and this does not allow her to be afraid of mixing colors. This is just the beginning of it... Her goal is to be a great young artist in her era! She has not been formally trained anywhere, and she has 2 years of hard-earned canvas painting experience. Her work is in private collections in the US, Europe and online. Email: Aika.art66@gmail.com Website: singulart.com/en/artist/art-taghera-34239?ref=ts Twitter: Taghera1 Instagram: Taghera_art Facebook: Taghera Art
The nature of a man Oil on canvas 30 x 25 cm 2021
26 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Animals world Acrylic on canvas 50x60 cm 2020
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 27
Instinct Oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm 2021
28 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
World in our hands Oil on canvas 100 x 60 cm 2022
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 29
Deoffal Maldoror
Deoffal Maldoror (22) (They/Them) is an emerging dark surrealist, expressionist, painter, illustrator and draughtsman, living and working in Birmingham, England. Maldoror has always been an avid scribbler and prolific doodler long before they could even speak, having been in art education for close to two decades they are now studying a master’s in fine art at the Birmingham School of Art at Margaret Street, and has been since the peak of the pandemic in 2020. The devastation and paradigm shift of a post-covid world revived Maldoror’s personal fascinations with transhumanism and the universal subjects of fear and nihilism within post-modernity, made subsequently into portraiture via his signature aesthetic. Maldoror’s unorthodox portraits reimagine the human profile and face as a medium with the potential to grant greater flesh to dark and taboo subject matters, whilst still grounding the pieces to our own egos and self-image concerns, a timeless issue in our vanity centric society. Maldoror’s art intentionally uses a Rorschach-esque approach to interrogate the audience through its mesmerising detail, all illustrated through an automatic style, further emphasising it’s abhuman and unhinged disquietedness in spite of sensible art conventions. Maldoror always endeavours to create pictorial philosophy, inspired by the quasi-philosophical literature of H.P Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and Clark Ashton Smith. In tandem with actual philosophers such as Eugene Thacker, Jean-Paul Sartre and Arthur Schopenhauer. This intentionally reaction inducing fusion of philosophy and portraiture uses horror as an allegory for social and psychosomatic commentary. The motifs of entropy, social evolution, achromatic aesthetic, the unknown nothingness found in blackness, body dysmorphia and existential dread are ever prevalent issues threaded through and living in the very lateral wrinkles and saliva of Maldoror’s creations. Maldoror is hoping soon to finally exhibit their work at Margaret Street this coming August, and with hopeful ambition, to go beyond the UK too. For now, Maldoror has a growing Instagram presence and is amassing fans to their unique practice and identity as an emerging horror academic within the contemporary arts landscape. Website: deoffalmaldoror.wixsite.com/deoffal-maldoror Instagram: @deoffal_maldoror Email: deoffal.maldoror@gmail.com
Wise Acrylic and Ink Markers on 200gsm paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2022
30 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Soup Acrylic paint and Ink Markers on 200gsm paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2022
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Fluid Acrylic paint and Ink Markers on 200gsm paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2022
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The Ladies Fall Acrylic paint and Ink Markers on 200gsm paper 29.7 x 21 cm 2022
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KIYORA
KIYORA is a Paper-cutting artist. Born in Japan, where she graduated from Architecture. This influenced the structure of her compositions, proportions and line. Kiyora’s detailed Paper-cutting works aim to depict the changing pockets of energy that make up our universe. Through bold, patterned contradictions, the compositions express light and dark, movement and stillness-using paper as a plane or representation and an outlet for creative expression:a source of energy in its own right. Kiyora is based in Japan. Her art works have been exhibited in: Tokyo,NY and London Statement I loved paper cutouts ever since I was a child, and I often lost track of time playing with them. Even after I became an adult, expressing myself with paper cutouts still attend me and makes me continue enjoy to create works.Texture of papers, sense of cutting them, and ways that paper changes its form and expression fascinate me tremendously. In my creative process, I start with drawing a rough sketch for cutout. I spend more time for sketching than cutting papers. There are several things to be aware of when I draw: composition and balance of black and white, and effectiveness of lines. I layer the sketch over black paper and attach four corners with adhesive tape. Then I compete the work by cutting two sheets of papers along with the sketch.Many people may consider that cutting something is an intense work, but to me, the act of cutting allows me to feel free and to be filled with joy. It is like playing the score which I create with concentration, then playing with joy. I aim at the expression to individualize energy with simple composition.The motifs in my works are often inspired by living things. I observe them and draw as if I express theirm energy. Black and white, which I use in my works, contradict each other and emphasize opposite factors of life, such as strength and daintiness or brightness and darkness.I believe combination of the contradictory factor is the energy of life. I intend to express that energy and beauty with paper cutouts. Site: kiyora888.mods.jp Instagram: kiyora888 Email: kiyora888@gmail.com
Florigen Paper-cutting 37.5 x 44.5cm 2022 34 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Scottish magic Paper-cutting 37.5 x 44.5cm 2021
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Pose Paper-cutting 37.3 X 50.5cm 2020
36 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Momentary Paper-cutting 29.7X42.0cm 2019
Florence Contemporary Gallery | 37
O Yemi Tubi
O Yemi Tubi has exhibited his works around the world and received numerous awards and recognitions. O. Yemi’s works were awarded 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th places in political commentaries in American Art Awards from 2014 to 2021. He was the recipient of Golden Award with cash award in the 2014 Master of Art International exhibition by Margarita Feaks Gallery, UK. He also received First Round Award with cash in Art Olympia 2015 International Open exhibition in Tokyo Japan. O. Yemi was the winner of the best show of the 2022 Urbanization and Health International Art Exhibition, and Competition. He was awarded the Talent Prize Award by Art Show International Gallery in PORTRAIT 2022 International Juried Art Competition for his work the “PORTRAIT of an Artist”. He was awarded the “Leonardo Da Vinci Award” for his outstanding works exhibited in MINDSCAPE, International Online Art Exhibition 2022 organized by CreARTors Collective, Mumbai, India. His work GELE was awarded the Best Show Award in the CQ64 2021 Winter issue of Creative Magazine. His work “My Mother won 1st Place (Best in Show), winner, by Tall Sequoia Gallery, Toronto Canada in 2020. His works are part of the top 25 in the Fine Art category of Creative Quarterly Magazine and awarded 100 Best Annual 2019 Fine Arts Award Certificate. His works have been published in some Newspapers, Magazines, and art books. His works were published in 2019 ART Habens Art Review, Biennial Edition published in Issue Vol. 49; 2019 MURZE Arts Magazine; Issue 4, January/February Issue 2019 and 2019 Quotes: Inspirational Quotations / Creative Responses’ book. His works were published in 2020 The March MASS: MATRIARCHY Monthly online Magazine and His works were published in 2018 ARTtour International Magazine ATIM’S Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art. Fine Art America published O. Yemi’s winning works in 2017 at www.Huffingtonpost.com. “World’s Best political Painters” and “World’s Best celebrity Portrait Artists. His interview and some of his was published on Africa.com. O. Yemi is a member of the Fine Art America, the Society of All Artists, AERA –the Association Embracing Realistic Art Circle Foundation for the arts, WCA- World Citizen Artists, International Association of Visual Artist, Visual Artists Association and New York Artists Equity Association. Artists Talk. Statement I am a Nigerian born, American trained Artist, residing in the United Kingdom as an artist with a unique personal style. My favoured medium is oil paints. Most of my recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced my first political painting “ARAB REVOLUTION” in 2012. The theme of my works, in general, is “The Facts of Life: Roses and Thorns.” Life is roses and thorns; sometimes it emanates the sweet aroma of pleasantness and sometimes it pricks and causes pains. I often use Roses and Thorns for portrait paintings of the facts of life of people. I first used Roses and Thorns in my political painting - “THE BLEEDING ROSES”, since then I adopted this floral iconography style - Roses and Thorns as my own unique style in some of my paintings like “DOMESTIC ABUSE”, GELE (African Head Wrap): Vintage and Modern, SENSUALITY1: Pain and Pleasure and others. Roses are for achievements and other positive parts of life and Thorns are painful challenges and negative parts of life. Website: o-yemi-tubi.pixels.com Facebook: yemi.arts Instagram: oyemit Twitter: OyemiartsOyemit
Riding the Waves Oil on canvas 36” x 24” 2019
38 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
She Bites the Apple Oil on canvas 48” x 24” 2019
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Lady Merete of Norway Oil on canvas 36” x 24” 2019
40 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
GELE (African Head Wrap): Vintage and Modern Oil on canvas 36” x 48” 2019
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Laura Dimitrova Laura Dimitrova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a member of the Union of the Bulgarian Artists. Since 2013 she is PhD. Since 2019 – DSc. She is professor of decorative arts and art theory at “St. Kliment Ohridski” University, Sofia, Bulgaria. She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Up until now she has had 31 individual exhibitions – 18 in Bulgaria; 2 in Paris, France; 2 in Germany – Munich and Schwandorf; 1 in Kavadarci, Macedonia; 2 in Nis, Serbia; 2 in Belgrade, Serbia, 1 in Novi Sad, Serbia, 1 in leskovac, Serbia; 1 in Budapest, Hungary; 1 in Warsaw, Poland. She has taken part in more than 200 group exhibitions, plein-air sessions and art projects in Bulgaria and abroad. Prizes: Second Prize for Drawing and Graphic Art at the Exhibition of the Artists from Northwest Bulgaria, Lom, 2005; The Award “James H. Pinto” from 13th International Biennial Festival of Portrait INTERBIFEP, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008; The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France in 2012; The award for graphic art from the 6th Biennial of the Small Art Forms, Pleven, Bulgaria, 2012; The award of the governor of Stara Zagora district from the Third Balkan Quadrennial of Painting, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 2012; The award for Bulgarian artist from the International Annual Paper Art Competition of AMATERAS, 2013; The award of the Art Gallery of Ruse from the 4th International Art Miniature, Ruse 2013; The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at GEDOK, Munich, Germany in 2014; The Union of Bulgarian Artists’ Scholarship Award for Residency at Schwandorf, Germany in 2016; Second prize from the Mail Art Biennial, Tekirdag, Turkey, 2016; Second prize from the Natioanl Exhibition Art Collage, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2017; The prize of the Union of the Bulgarian artists from the Biennial of Drawing, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, 2019. Statement We are spiritually and materially linked to the idea of life as a memorable experience. And the experience, redone and even recycled by human memory is transformed to the blend of universal and personal symbolism. Website: lauradimitrova.wixsite.com/laura-dimitrova Instagram: dimitrova.laura Email: laura.ivan.dimitrova@gmail.com
Letters Mixed media 60 x 150 cm 2022
42 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Monument Recycled paper 70 x 30 x 30 cm 2020
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Flying Carpets Mixed media, installation Varying dimensions 2009
44 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Scroll Recycled paper, mixed media Varying dimensions 2013
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Eri Kato Statement My task as an artist is to reconstruct the things which have become unnecessary in daily life and create a new value out of those things. As a child, I was taught to handle things with great care. However, as time went by, Japan became a real consumer’s society with cheaply made products. As a result, some things disappeared from our lives. I felt a strong sense of incongruity. My works are abstract art. I mostly utilize discarded materials, such as used cardboard boxes and scrap woods. I get a lot of inspiration from their texture, form, and color. I use tools which are used in our daily life such as scissors, a needle or just my hands. As much as possible, I try to create my art in a simple, primitive way. Creation is always an experiment and it involves trials and errors. Website: eri-kato.jimdosite.com Email: e.factory7575@gmail.com Instagram: erikato_art Facebook: erikato7575
Nui-190306 Mixed media 80 x 90 x 3 cm 2019
46 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Nui 201117 Mixed media(Used cardboard boxes, thread) 12 × 15 × 10 cm 2020
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Dots 210515 Mixed media(Used cardboard boxes, used envelopes) 31.7 × 26.8 × 2.5 cm 2021
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Untitled 220506 Mixed media(Used cardboard boxes) 31.7 × 26.8 × 2.5 cm 2022
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Lize Krüger Lize is a South African artist who received her BA Fine Arts Degree in 1988 from The University of Northwest in South Africa. During the eighties, until 2008, she had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions through the years. In the early 2000s, before she moved to the UK in 2014, she taught art lessons to students at a quadriplegic facility and an underage abuse victim’s centre. After a ten year Sabbatical from the Arts, she resumed her art career in 2018 by accepting a commission from the Directors of The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. Since then, she has exhibited extensively internationally and has featured in various publications Email: lizekrugerfineart@gmail.com Instagram: lizekrugerfineart Facebook: lizekrugerstudio Website: lizekrugerfineart.com
PRIMEVICTIM I Oil on canvas 27.56 x 39.37 cm 2021
50 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
TIME FOR INTROSPECTION I Interdisciplinary medium on paper 59 x 85 cm 2022
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FRAGMENTS OF A MOTHER Interdisciplinary medium on paper 42 x 59 cm 2022
52 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
UKRANIAN MOTHER Oil on Canvas 90 x 120 cm 2022
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Luana Stebule
I have now been living and creating for a nearly a decade in the United Kingdom. My works previously included many projects for theatrical stage settings, mural paintings, together with 24 solo and 37 shared exhibitions in Europe: Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, England and in the United States. To briefly recap I was born in Lithuania, in 1962. In Antanas Martinaitis Art School and Academy of Art I was taught art techniques, styles and the finer points of the craft. However, I think amongst the most important influences in the creativity, deepest understanding and originality in my work comes from infinity, God and immortality. The spiritual level of artworks is very important to me. Many years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci wrote “Where the spirit does not work with the hand there no art”. My artworks are poems on canvas. In order to achieve particular expressions, I stylize forms by simplifying them in my own unique way. My pictures have elements of surrealism, pointillism and conceptualism. The idea behind artwork is very important to me. My current artworks are traditional, oil on canvas, though for many years my favourite technique was the production of collages with use of numerous materials including wood, sawdust, mirrors, leather and textiles. Layer by layer these imbued the richness of the final surface. The pictures provide a physical body to juxtapose and suffuse it veritably with a jazz of visual performance. Picture sales have previously been by traditional methods of exhibitions and word of mouth, only in 2018, when I participated in Art Expo New York, I created a website and become visible on the world of the internet. Since 2018 I have received some recognitions.By the International Art Market Magazine I was selected to be on the Gold List as one of the Top Artists of Today. In January 2020 in Florence, I was awarded the 3rd International Leonardo Da Vinci prize and in September - the New York City Prize. In 2020 my artworks included in the Art Anthologies “Important World Artists 2020” and “International Current Masters 2021” published by “Artavita” in the US. Also, in 2020 my artworks also appeared in the book “The Great Masters of Contemporary Art”. Most recently in 2021, one of my artworks selected into the book “Best 2021 Modern and Contemporary Artists”, in 2021 I was awarded the “Dante Alighieri International Prize”. Email: luanastebule@gmail.com Instagram: luanastebule Facebook: luanyteart
Oxford street Oil on canvas 61 x 46 cm 2021
54 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Round the clock Oil on canvas 91 x 61 cm 2019
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My family Oil on canvas 76 x 51 cm 2021
56 | Florence Contemporary Gallery
Transformation Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm 2021
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Luciano Caggianello
Luciano Caggianello, born in Siena in 1959, is an artist and designer who began his career in the 80s interacting with different professional fields (advertising, illustration, graphics, design). At the same time he embarked on a solid path of artistic research that, after the initial and assiduous attendance at the studios and studios of Turin artists, led him to evolve different visual themes and also allow him to consolidate a structured itinerary national and international exhibition. At the same time, along this path, it is also accompanied by the publication of some books (“Intermediario Immateriale” 2003, “Parole altrove” 2014, “Aporia e Metamorfosi dell’Arte” 2019, “Fenomenologia del Quotidiano 2020, “Pubblicità .jPIG 2021) which serve as an aid to reflection. and deepening about one’s conceptual and philosophical research. In recent years his artistic recognition has become substantially a work of prevailing perceptual synthesis that re-elaborates all the didactic, cultural and intellectual interactions coming also from the synthesis of its multiple training fields (from applied industrial physics, to architecture, to graphics, to design, to visual). This approach identifies the artistic objective of a basic conceptual thematic project and of experimentation inserted between concrete “poverty” and digital work, revealing much more relevant to parameters and concepts of presentation than of representation. He lives and works in Turin. Statement The work is inspired by Van Gogh’s sunflowers and intends to express a sort of closeness and gratitude to that parameter that can be defined as “technology”. In fact, if for Van Gogh sunflowers represented happiness and human closeness to a life cycle of existentialism, so these alternative sunflowers try to translate a concept of common satisfaction. Although technology (within which we can certainly insert metalworking) has produced waste that intersects social, cultural and economic aspects, it has certainly produced well-being and above all an evolutionary path of knowledge and intellectual capacity that perhaps manage to overshadow the many dissatisfactions sown along the way. Therefore the tribute to this path (for some of only capitalism but, for others, also of cultural and social references) translates into a work of our contemporaneity that only intends to be pleased with its visual and almost perfect path, almost as much as that of a sunflower Email: progettozen@gmail.com Instagram: lucianocaggianello Site: gigarte.com/lucianocaggianello Facebook: luciano.caggianello.1
Metalworking Sunflowers Digital Work 90 x 90 x 0,5 cm 2016
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The Colander Heart Digital, Print on diBond 90 x 90 x 0,5 cm 2016
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In Brackets Digital, Print on diBond 90 x 90 x 0,5 cm 2016
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OpticalClip
Digital, Print on diBond 90 x 90 x 0,5 cm 2016
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Natoo
Painting is a poetry that is seen instead of felt and poetry is a painting that is felt instead of seen. Leonardo da Vinci Mainly focused on female faces, the importance of a look, aren’t the eyes the mirrors of the soul, they reflect so many emotions, passions, intensity, we can read love, fear, sadness ... I am amazed to start a drawing with the eyes and to see that the tone is given, the rest follows, intertwines, clashes guided simply by the magic of the look. Originally from France, on the French Riviera for 21 years now, after having taken courses at the Art School of Louvecienne (78) I share my time between computer teaching and digital art. How I swapped the brush for the stylus: Following some medical constraints and surgeries forcing me to stay in bed for several periods more or less long wearing a beautiful rigid corset, I took myself for the Frida Kahlo of the 21st century (just because of the corset, I would never pretend to compare myself to this so great Artist) with graphic tablet and stylus. But isn’t the most important thing to take pleasure in drawing and to be able to share one’s madness and dreams? It has become a passion, I am completely addicted to it! Instagram: natooartissss06 Email: natooartisss@gmail.com Site: artmajeur.com/nclevier?availableForSale=1
Dacil Digital paint 70 x 107 cm 2022
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Thalias Digital paint 100 x 70 cm 2022
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Alice Digital paint 92,6 x 60 cm 2022
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Bella Digital paint 76,9 x 50 cm 2022
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Artusnow
Artusnow’s digital paintings mix lush colors and heightened textures to transport viewers to an ephemeral, dreamlike world. He is a self-taught professional constantly exploring the limits between photography and painting, using digital tools to create hyper-textured, colors-driven, powerful artworks. He specialized in large format creations (the largest he has created so far is a 270 cm x 650 cm wall painting), with incredible textures, complex combinations of colors, that can be figurative or abstract. Statement As a contemporary artist, I feel I have to help resolving the complexity of the art market. I think a good way to to do it would be helping to build a bridge between “traditional” art (paintings created on a physical media) and what could be the “future” of art (intangible digital assets inserted in the blockchain, also called Non Fungible Tokens or NFT). To learn more: https://artusnow.com/building-a-bridge-between-today-and-the-future/ Website: artusnow.com Email: reachme@artusnow.com Instagram:artusnow
Elena de Troya Digital collage 100 x 140 cm 2020
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Las Ninfas de Artemis Mixed media: Digital collage + handmade finish 100 x 140 cm 2020
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Somos polvo de Estrellas Mixed media: Digital collage + handmade finish. 100 x 140 cm 2020
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The Labyrinth Mixed media: digital collage + handmade finish 100 x 140 cm. 2022
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Olga Me “My name is Olga, I was born in Russia in 1982. My first experiences as an artist was when I left Russia in 2013 and art became my therapy, the way to understand myself and the world around me. My influences are travelings in Asia and Eastern philosophy. It was here that I realized that I wanted to pursue my career in this field. I took one year course of art, then I went on to study through practical experience, learning through trial and error and self learning, online master classes and private lessons. I work primarily in acrylic on canvas and I currently work from Georgia, Tbilisi. Statement My art captures energy of daily events. I want to show Love in every moment, every action. This is an invitation to live in the moment, feel harmony in and out
Email: olgameart@gmail.com Instagram: olgameart Website: olgameart.com/
Floating thoughts Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60 cm 2021
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Spring in China, Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60 cm 2021
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Silence II Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60 cm 2021
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Fall Acrylic on canvas 50 x 60 cm 2021
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Pato Reichler Statement I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From a very young age I have been passionate about art. I always painted and always sang, I am also an engineer, but a few years ago I decided to focus exclusively on painting. Although I worked on different themes using different techniques, for more than 6 years I have dedicated myself to painting my own interpretation of the stories (Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Puss in Boots and Alicia among others). My goal is to get through them to the most childish part that we all have inside. But at the same time, I also seek to mobilize the viewer with the psychological side of my works. I work using different techniques: oil, collage, mixed media, pastels and stained glass lacquer. I am a very persevering person, with clear objectives and I consider myself a good communicator. It is in that same line that I want, and I try that my works transmit emotions, mobilize, and give a message to the viewer. I usually start with a clear idea of what I’m going to do, the main objective being the message I want to convey. I think about it, I sketch, I rethink the idea, locate the characters and I start working with the colors and materials until I reach the final result I was looking for. As an artist I overcame the barrier of “what will they say?”. Before, I was concerned about what people might think when seeing my works since I always developed very sensitive topics. Nowadays I managed to overcome this in part thanks to my work, to the characters of the stories I paint; I show very current realities and situations and I’ve come to realize that people in general feel identified with my work at some point. I have had very good reception from the different audiences and that encourages me to continue creating. In my life there were certain triggers that led me to develop the topics I represent in my work I always knew what I wanted to create. I was always passionate about classic stories, but I wanted to give them a twist. I try to show the psychological part that all these stories have and demonstrate that, no matter how old the stories are they are still very current. In my opinion, that is why people are attracted to my work, because one way or another they identified themselves with it. The story behind my works…well that’s a tough one. There are experiences that mark you and that you wish not to happen to anyone else. I also like to express how important respect for the other person is, and the importance be able to tell someone: “Up to here, this is the limit”, or that you can always get out of the darkest and tangled forest. Also, I try to raise awareness on the importance of caring for the environment and our planet. I like to work with topics that involve questions that people usually ask themselves and sometimes don’t dare to express. I want my works to have a lot of content and to be mobilizing. Website: www.patoreichler.com.ar Instagram: @patoreichler Facebook: Pato Reichler Email: patoreichler@yahoo.com.ar
Winter Heart Mixed Media 80 x 120 cm 2021
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Lo que quedó del lobo Oli collage 50 x 50 cm 2020
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Actitud II Pastel on paper 45 x 35 cm 2020
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Actitud I Pastel on paper 45 x 35 cm 2020
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Paul Richards
I am a Scottish based Fine Art photographer and digital artist with over 30 years of experience in both film and digital eras, I have delivered images across a broad range of genres to a wide variety of clients and amassed a large body of work. I have been fortunate enough to receive multiple awards for my work and also have it exhibited in many international venues. As a great believer in putting pixels into print I print all my own fine art images to ensure the quality, exclusivity and value of each print, mostly limiting each print edition to 1 of 1. My daily blog has also become part of my life where I publish one new ‘finished’ image each day, which I have now done every day for over nine years. Statement: As a photographer I enjoyed creating images that engaged and captivated the viewer and drew them in to look closely and find out more. This was important for most photo genres but with the advent of the digital age and its now amazing capability to capture details, it has opened up endless possibilities for unique fine art images. I now enjoy transforming the images I capture, by isolating key elements within the image and then blending them together in a new abstract form. Using symmetry and pseudo-symmetry, light and tone especially when presented in a large format can draw the viewer in to investigate the very high levels of detail and definition. I still love ‘regular’ photography but love peoples reactions to these abstractions and the fact that I get to use all the best bits again Email: paulr@perphotography.co.uk Website: perphotography.co.uk Instagram: @paulpersys Facebook: paul.richards.9028/
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Steel and Glass Shadows Digital photo print 40 x 40 cm 2022
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Potpourri Mesh Digital photo print 40 x 40 cm 2022
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Sky Between Digital photo print 40 x 40 cm 2022
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Kamila CK
Passionate about revolutionising the way we view our inner world and our own human journey, Kamila CK’s works merge boundaries between abstract painting, Japanese Zen calligraphy, and performance arts (including musicality, circus, and physical theatre) in a contemporary art context. Kamila become an artist at the age of 35, after a successful career in London’s hotel industry. To find her “artistic side”, Kamila travelled to Kyoto, Japan where she lived in summer 2018 and since then started exploring various art mediums including painting, Japanese caligraphy and live performance. Since then, she attended painting courses with Slade School of Fine Arts in London and had been practicing shodo (the art of Japanese caligraphy) under Rie Takeda, Japanese caligraphy teacher and artist. She also completed Professional Course in Circus Art and created her own aerial performances staged in London and abroad. Her work explores human connection, metaphysics and the laws of the universe. The sense of mystery and emergence pulsate through her work, connecting people with something beyond or much bigger than our own immediate world. To make the unseen seen. Each artwork has a story and message behind it, speaking about universal subjects on the human journey, showing recognisable emotions that the audience can relate to. Ultimately being an internal mirror for the viewer. Kamila CK methods are developed from the love of movement and the spiritual way of painting in shodo (Japanese zen/spirit caligraphy). When she develops a new work, she avoids all logical planning, but rather have generic vision of what she wants to create including a main subject and an emotion sand subject for people to experience. Once the focus is established, the process is done in a performative way, in a moment, and in one go - resembling a traditional shodo principles where a Zen calligrapher removes its mind from the process to let the work flow out of themselves. The true creative spirit takes over and the work creates itself beyond anyone’s expectations. For the artist, the movement and creating in the moment is the gateway to creativity, abstraction, and the genius self. Website: emergingvisions.art Instagram: kamila_ck_artist Email: kamila@emergingvisions.art
Enso Transformed Japanese Sumi Ink and Acrylics on Canvas 60 x 60 cm 2021
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The Sweet Light of Imagination Acrylics, inks and mixed media on canvas 118 x 80 cm 2021
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Tears of Joy and Sadness in Colour Acrylics and mixed media on canvas 60 x 60 cm 2021
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Enso - Movement Desires Japanese sumi ink on textured rice paper 82 x 82cm (in a frame) 2022
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Vasile Stefanoiu My Credo is: art must have a message. Just as the gods want their followers to become stronger, so the works of art must be completed in the aesthetic experiences of as many contemplators as possible. The work of art is an Aphrodite whose temple crumbles if there is no one to bring her offerings. Without contemplators, it remains only a sensitive transient and easy-to-forget fact. I am one of those sculptors who insist on making art in the traditional way, but without rejecting contemporary trends. The contemporaneity of my sculpture consists in the possibility of saying new messages with established techniques, moving from form to content, becoming an ideational art in which the concept prevails. In some of my sculptures I take the narrative context of legends from the civilization of ancient Greece and place them in different contexts, suggesting movement in metamorphosis, to create completely new meanings and evoke completely different emotions, a way of seeing again in modern times. In sculpture, I aim to produce the sensation of the real and to create images that are on the border between true and unreal, exploring that fine connection between authentic and artificial. I like direct sculpture, taking advantage of the childhood routine where together with my father I sculpted for sale large stone crosses, which I sculpted naughty angels, so I learned the craft of direct sculpture. I made the leap from the craft of direct stone carving to the artistic representation of a meeting, as a child, with the Romanian sculptor George Apostu, whom I saw carving in stone some strange shapes, which did not resemble what the stone carvers made of my white village (Ciuta- Romania). I’ve been looking for the answer for the rest of my life ever since. I trained in art classes, studied the phenomenon of contemporary visual art, read a lot, visited museums and art galleries in Europe and New York. I am an active member of the Sculpture Network, an international non-profit organization that includes sculptors from Europe and other countries, with the aim of supporting and promoting three-dimensional art. Website: stefanoiuvasile.wordpress.com Instagram: vasile.stefanoiu Facebook: vasilestefanoiu Email: vasilestefanoiu09@gmail.com
Pygmalion & Galateea – metamorphosis Marble carving 75 x 42 x 18 cm 2020
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Orpheus and Eurydice Marble carving 77 x 46 x 12 cm 2021
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Arachne – metamorphosis Marble & copper carving 70 x 37 x 19 cm 2021
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Icarus - the dream of freedom Direct carving marble, threaded iron and wood 101 x 74 x 37 cm 2021
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Wendy Cohen Wendyv Cohen is a Sydney-based artist who has earned BFA and MFA degrees. She has exhibited several times at The New York Art Expo, Art Spectrum Miami, Art San Diego and The Other Art Fair, Sydney. She has been published in various art books and has received a Top 60 Masters by Art Tour International award 2021 and was named an Artist of the Future by Contemporary Art Curator, 202. Her practice depicts energy and movement that rotates with an interplay of various shapes, tones of colour, and light. The viewer is invited to participate in the depth and mystery of the 3D effects created with diverse shapes. As a result, her works are imbued with a sense of curiosity, wonderment and intrigue that is open to the viewer’s interpretation. Observation, intuition and imagination are key to ’s process as she responds to the magnificence of the interconnectedness of the world. But most importantly, she welcomes the viewer to participate in the creativity and mystery of her works that she translates onto the canvas with a syncopated rhythm and beat. Website: cohen.net.au Instagram: cohen123
Routes of roots Acrylic, paper, markers on board 30 x 30 cm 2022
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Twilight rockscape Acrylic, markers, paper on wooden panel board 30 x 30 cm 2022
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Glowing melting iceberg Acrylic, paper, markers on linen canvas 40 x 40 cm 2022
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Raw adn rustic Acrylic, markers, linen, pastel on wood panel 30 x 30 cm 2022
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Yvonne Welman
After completing her education at the Academy of Arts Tilburg, the Netherlands, Yvonne Welman worked as a teacher in Arts and Art History. To improve her qualities as a painter, she took lessons in 16th and 17th-century oil painting techniques. Welman works with open acrylics in a layering technique often used in oil painting. The textile fabrics in a lot of the paintings are from personal stories. Because she likes to make narrative paintings, her work has to be figurative. The stories cover gender equality, social issues, art history and personal issues, exploring the Zeitgeist from a female perspective. Serendipity, time and technique each play their part during the process of creating her paintings. It takes a lot of time to create Welman’s work which allows for inserting new ideas during the process. This stands in strong contrast with all the images that we are surrounded by, most of the day. Welman creates a more complex strip story from all the images we daily encounter. Sometimes her work stagnates. To free her mind from such problems, Yvonne turns to the joy of creating with a focus on pure beauty, composition, structures, colors, light. Nature (flowers) provides the possibility to create without intellectual problems interfering. Most of the time just by using the craftmanship of drawing and painting there appears, out of nowhere, a solution to the problems. Artists like Breughel, Jeroen Bosch, Georgia O’ Keefe, Camille Claudel, Neo Rauch, Lita Cabellut, Jenny Saville are her inspiration. Yvonne Welman is a member of the artists’ societies BOK and WKK and Krimpener Kunstwaard in the Netherlands as well as Manhattans Arts International on line Gallery, Kun:st International Stuttgart. She has received awards in the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, USA etc. In 2021 she exhibited mainly on juried art exhibitions among other. Website: yvonne-welman.com Facebook: yvonnewelmanart Email: ywelmanmeijers@yahoo.com
Comment on Klimt Acrylic on canvas 150 x 150 cm.
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My Parents Daughter & Hypercube Acrylic on canvas 96 x 130 cm
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Three graces Acryl on canvas 80 x 120 cm
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Portrait Hans Welman Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60
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